{"id":1826,"date":"2008-11-26T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T00:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2008-11-27T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T17:36:23","slug":"wkrp-classic-turkey-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"WKRP Classic Turkey Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>they&#8217;re hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P2ifyi8-lxo&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P2ifyi8-lxo&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A non-train post, but I couldn&#8217;t resist&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this was almost 30 years ago!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The classic \u201cTurkeys Away\u201d episode of WKRP in Cincinnati was based on a very unsettling real event. WKRP creator Hugh Wilson had a friend who worked for an Atlanta radio station that decided to toss live turkeys out of a helicopter for a Thanksgiving promotion. Just like the TV episode revealed, none of the folks involved with the stunt knew that domestic turkeys couldn\u2019t fly, and a local shopping center was bombarded with turkeys hitting the ground \u201clike bags of wet cement.\u201d (\u201cAs God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!\u201d)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they&#8217;re hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement&#8221; A non-train post, but I couldn&#8217;t resist&#8230;. Enjoy. BTW, this was almost 30 years ago! Update- &#8220;The classic \u201cTurkeys Away\u201d episode of WKRP in Cincinnati was based on a very unsettling real event. WKRP creator Hugh Wilson had a friend who worked for an Atlanta radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}